" That will certainly help, although if Sandy is able to arrange a transfer to one of the IBM offices in this area, her salary will be several times w...at I'm getting from the Navy." You know, the Navy doesn't own you forever; you can leave after your four years are up. Rest assured, we would be very happy to have you continue here as a civilian employee! Our pay scale may not quite match IBM's, but it would be a lot more than you are getting now."I thanked him, telling him, "I will certainly. Another attack of anger surged through me for entirely different reasons, when I saw Susan with her mother. This was the first time I'd seen this woman since she'd sent me that awful letter. Although many years had passed I still felt something akin to hatred towards her. The rage I was already feeling ensured that there would be no chance at forgiveness. I was grateful that Susan didn't see me because I was not sure how she would view the events leading up to the death of her best friend.For. The crowd was not impatient.Towards one wall of the courtyard there was a strange sculpture, an abstract form of perpendicular lines. It was made of wood. A single bar rose vertically from a platform built up 6 feet from the ground, crossed about seven feet up by another and flanked by two boards, each with three holes cut in a geometric pattern. The people of the crowd looked at the sculpture on occasion expectantly, more often at the door to the building. It was almost noon.In the building an. He wiped his blade on the man’s shirt and walked to the back of the house.“What did y’all find?” he asked Moses and Duncan when he came into the bedroom.“We found a room over there with nothing but guns and bullets of all kinds. There must be over two hundred guns in there, Eli,” Moses said as they opened the door to show him.Eli walked in and saw the walls lined with rifles and shotguns. On one wall were shelves from top to bottom, filled with fancy handguns of all makes and sizes.“We’ll get a.